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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Experience Points Experience points (XP) fuel level advancement for player characters and are most often the reward for completing combat encounters. Each monster has an XP value based on its
received substantial assistance from one or more NPCs, count those NPCs as party members when dividing up the XP. (Because the NPCs made the fight easier, individual characters receive fewer XP.) Chapter 3, "Creating Adventures" provides guidelines for designing combat encounters using experience points.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, however, gives a character the ability to deal Force damage. The simpler your approach, the easier it is for a character to use the item in play. Giving the item charges is fine, especially if it has
several different abilities, but simply deciding that an item is always active or can be used a fixed number of times per day might be easier to manage. Power Level If you make an item that lets a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the ram, however, gives a character the ability to deal force damage. The simpler your approach, the easier it is for a character to use the item in play. Giving the item charges is fine, especially if
it has several different abilities, but simply deciding that an item is always active or can be used a fixed number of times per day is easier to manage. Power Level If you make an item that lets a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
The cults of Innsmouth reward those who honor their obscene patrons. Use the guidance in the Dungeon Master’s Guide to track characters’ individual standing within Innsmouth’s cults. Characters can
Scaly Abyss Aberrant Anatomy These Dark Gifts include magical transformations associated with the cult’s patron and its members. This magic can make it easier to navigate parts of the domain and bypass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
NPCs made the challenge easier. (See also “Nonplayer Characters” in chapter 3.) Noncombat Challenges You decide whether to award XP to characters for overcoming challenges outside combat. If the
XP, treat a major milestone as a high-difficulty encounter and a minor milestone as a low-difficulty encounter. Other Milestone Rewards. If you want to reward your players for their progress through an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. One of your goals in this part of the adventure is to keep your special NPC alive. For each of these NPCs that survives, your party will receive a special quest that yields a reward upon its successful
completion. The details of these special quests won’t be revealed until the end of this part of the adventure.
The player-controlled NPCs are intentionally simpler and easier to run than the players
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
greatest bastions of civilization, including the coastal city of Neverwinter. Roleplaying and Inspiration
One of the things that you can do as the DM is reward players for roleplaying their characters
well.
Each of the characters included in this set has two personality traits (one positive and one negative), an ideal, a bond, and a flaw. These elements can make the character easier and more fun
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
your entire DMing career, or you might change it with each campaign. Offering inspiration as a reward encourages certain types of behavior in your players. Think of your style as a DM and your
inspiration. Roleplaying. Using inspiration to reward roleplaying is a good place to start for most groups. Reward a player with inspiration when that player causes his or her character to do something that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. That latter option is even easier to set up if the characters’ possession of the orrery and its components allows them to channel teleportation magic into their headquarters as their transportation
). Making Franchise Advancement Rewarding Advancing a franchise is meant to be a major accomplishment for the players and their characters. This is a moment to celebrate and reward the party’s deeds and to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
tells them, are Nadia the Unbent and Shunn Shurreth. Rizzeryl doesn’t reveal the nature of the reward, other than to say it will make the party’s exploration of Undermountain easier. If the characters
calls for them. Rizzeryl offers the adventurers a reward if they destroy both Xanathar Guild outposts on this level (areas 9 and 20) and return with the heads of both guild leaders, whose names, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
challenging: Changes in Elevation. Terrain features that provide a change of elevation (such as stacks of empty crates, ledges, and balconies) reward clever positioning and encourage characters to jump, climb
absence might warrant removing creatures from an encounter to keep it at the intended difficulty. Also, die rolls and other factors can result in an encounter being easier or harder than intended. You can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
is complete or interrupted. If disturbed, they fight.
Adjusting the Difficulty. To make this encounter easier, reduce the number of Cultists. Conversely, you can make this encounter more challenging
Point each—to thank them for helping the sprites train.
Treasure. In exchange for the characters’ spirited participation, the sprites reward the party with one magic item; roll once on the Magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
she becomes the largest giant in the world, Guh believes the gods will reward her and elevate hill giants to the top of the ordning. Guh has spent the past four months gorging herself, while nearby
Ironslag — a goal easier imagined than accomplished. Countess Sansuri Sansuri, a vainglorious cloud giant countess, is one of several cloud giant nobles who have retreated to their cloud castles and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
that the crypt lies beneath a temple called Talhundereth, but the temple teemed with dangerous monsters. The crypt is protected by a lock with a puzzle that Dumathoin’s faithful could solve easier than
to store obelisk fragments as well. Reward. If the characters bring Pip home, the Stonehills offer the characters free rooms and board at their inn for as long as they’re in the area. The characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
as either bandit takes damage, they flee the caves. If the characters talk instead, Vonnet and Dilly offer to join forces to retrieve the bowl. They offer to split the reward money. A character who
decide there isanimosity brewing between them to make them easier to manipulate. Or maybe one of the bandits is a long-lost acquaintance of one of the characters! If you’re not short on time, getting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
burning caravans that belong to the rivals of those who do pay. Less scrupulous merchants are finding it easier to do business with the cult than to fight against them. Any Zhentarim contacts of the
leading a group of cultists that was terrorizing the dwarves. Having killed Cheela’s drakes and subordinates, the dwarves bring their prisoner to the adventurers hoping for a reward. Cheela has useful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
burning caravans that belong to the rivals of those who do pay. Less scrupulous merchants are finding it easier to do business with the cult than to fight against them. Any Zhentarim contacts of the
leading a group of cultists that was terrorizing the dwarves. Having killed Cheela’s drakes and subordinates, the dwarves bring their prisoner to the adventurers hoping for a reward. Cheela has useful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
burning caravans that belong to the rivals of those who do pay. Less scrupulous merchants are finding it easier to do business with the cult than to fight against them. Any Zhentarim contacts of the
leading a group of cultists that was terrorizing the dwarves. Having killed Cheela’s drakes and subordinates, the dwarves bring their prisoner to the adventurers hoping for a reward. Cheela has useful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
from happening. At your discretion, you might also limit how many times Splugoth can be returned to life in this manner.
During the fight, feel free to reward player ingenuity. Maybe a character
possess additional components and the orrery housing. Any character on the top of the mesa who studies the existing components understands that adding a new component to the mix makes it easier to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
adventure, and more than one way to play D&D! When characters come up with clever solutions to tricky problems, reward them with success—or at least a good chance of success. Use the guidelines in the
library below (area D6) and free Aidron, and then fight Sparkrender with Aidron’s help. Either approach is fine. The fight will be easier for the characters with Aidron on their side, but they can still
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
best kept in large areas with limited access, making them easier to guard. The tribe’s boss lays claim to a space that’s treated as a throne room of sorts. The lashers and hunters of a tribe occupy
other caverns and chambers, enjoying the comfort and safety of underground living as a reward for their status and their value to the group. NILBOGS: PRANKSTERS WITH POWER
A nilbog (“goblin” spelled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
rush of grave robbing. Though Baldurians rarely bury their dead with valuables anymore, and many of the easier pickings have been taken, it’s common wisdom that some of the greatest treasures of past
himself, as evidenced by the magical flying axe that guards his shop at night. Customers are inevitably treated to the story of the grateful elven princess who enchanted the axe for him as a reward for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
dead with valuables anymore, and many of the easier pickings have been taken, it’s common wisdom that some of the greatest treasures of past centuries still lie entombed with their heroes, their
shop at night. Customers are inevitably treated to the story of the grateful elven princess who enchanted the axe for him as a reward for a daring adventure undertaken on her behalf. In truth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
cozy tavern called the Hero’s Reward, run by an amiable and talkative young half-elf named Delf Dereldar (LG male half-elf commoner). Delf spends his idle time gazing at a chessboard on the bar; he
dealing with the frost giants a bit easier, allowing characters to pick them off one or two at a time. A creature can see out to a range of 60 feet in the fog. The area beyond that is heavily obscured. The